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Why we should not withdraw from the CFA ?

We naively believe that the West stands for honesty and fair-play. It takes time to learn the game they play

By Charles Perera

JVP is absolutely blind to underlying danger not from the LTTE but from the International Community, or they know but trying to make political mileage from the situation with the population, which is unaware of our involvement with international politics.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse and his close group of advisors know what they are doing, and it is best that the President is left alone to go ahead with his way of tackling the present political situation. The President can be trusted not to give into the pressure put on him by the International Community nor get defeated by the tiger terrorists in throes of death.

The CFA though in tatters is crucial to hold on to, in this critical stage where hidden powers behind their acclaimed reputation as guardians of democracy may act to destabilise the government and force its hands for division. Why is the International Community so keen on devolution of power ? That is for the Government of Sri Lanka to decide. The International Community is well aware of it, but nevertheless they have not stopped prodding on the government to hasten the issue. What is the reason ?

CFA is important because the terrorists cannot make any political declarations outside the CFA, despite the fact the CFA is almost no-nexistent. The International Community has accepted the CFA as a still existing document, and they cannot therefore move to checkmate Sri Lanka, as they may probably have done if the CFA did not exist. That in my opinion is why we have to leave the CFA as it is, and let the Sri Lanka Army go ahead step by step with its programme of wiping out the terrorists. We cannot expect the International Community to help us rid ourselves of the ruthless group of terrorists, and the task has fallen on our lone shoulders. Therefore we have to play the game without putting ourselves in to a trap of our own making.

Therefore we should not withdraw from the CFA , and also let the Norway continue with their monitoring mission, so that the International Community will not pounce on us at a moment of laxity on our part.

The JVP ought to be aware of the situation, but they seem to make an issue of it, to feel to what extent they are popular among the people to assemble them in numbers at their call of danger. The JVP should however know that the numbers that assemble at their call are not necessarily those who would vote for them at an election. That however, is another kettle of fish.

The JVP is an accepted leftist party and they are therefore not a popular political party like the UNP or the SLFP . JVP can come into political power only by uniting its forces with one of the popular parties. Therefore, Somawansa Amarasinghe’s screaming to the crowds that if the President would not withdraw the CFA they will oust the government is just barking into the air.

Now the Norwegian Monitoring Mission is utterly meaningless. They are also non-existent as a Monitoring Mission, as much as the CFA is non existent. But yet, SLMM is accepted as the Official Monitoring Mission by the International Community, therefore the Government has to go along with them. There is no harm in that as long as we do not allow them to twist our arms to do, what they want us to do.

We in Sri Lanka very naively believe that the West-the International Community stand for honesty and fair-play. Which I am afraid is far from it. But it takes time to understand the game they play. They can dupe us and mislead us. They act for their own profit. It matters less for them whether you are Sinhala, Tamil or Muslim. They careless what your culture is or whether it is terrorists we have or innocent people. They have their own Agenda.

We see it from the statements made by American Ambassadors or English Parliamentarians, the UN Officials and judgements made by American Judges. One begins to feel that these people, the so called respected Officials are from another planet when they say that the Government of Sri Lanka should negotiate peace with the terrorists, when it is quite evident to even a child that the terrorists do not want to negotiate.

A friend from America writes, that the US Vice President Dick Chaney, on a visit to Australia had said in a radio interview, on 23rd February,2007 that, "No one can negotiate with terrorists sitting at a table, because, while they negotiate, they make martyrs and send them as suicide bombers."
This is contrary to what the American Ambassador Robert O. Blake had said in Sri Lanka. Why ? What is the reason for this duplicity of views ?

There are under currents we do not see, but into which we may be led, if we do not keep our eyes open. Beware of the International Community as much as the LTTE terrorists.

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